Improved blacking-brush



R. ADAMS.

Blacking Bruh.

, No. 69,603. Patented Oct. 8, 1867.

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' Letters Patent No. 69,603, dated October 8, 1867.

IMPROVED BLAGKING-BRUSH.

ToALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

' Be it known that 1, ROBERT ADAMS, of the city of Cincinnati, county of Hamilton, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful improvementin Blaeking-Brushes, of which the following is a full and clear description, reference being bad to' the accompanying drawings, forming part of these specifications.

' My improvement consists in the application of a device to the connecting the blanking-box and spreadingbrush'so that blacking will be fed down to the spreading-brush. In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the blacking-brush, with my improvement as applied and shown in condition-for use.

Figure 2 is a sectional view representing the two rubber springs 13, which are fastened to the polishingbrush A, end'to the spreading-brush D, one on each side, as shown in fig. 1.

Figured is a sectional view, showing the spreading-brush D,- blacking-box-C, and glass ball E, in their relative positions to each other when in use.

Figure 4 is a sectional view of the top of A, showing the "recessed circle G, into which the bottom of blacking-boxfl is placed and clamped fast by the springs B B.

, A, fig. 1, is the blacking-brush, in which the recessed circle G, fig. 4, is first made, then the springs B 13, fig. 2, are to be nailed at the end, as shown in fig. 1, to the sides or edges of the polishing-brush; then nail the other end of the springs B B to the spreading-brush D, as shown in fig. 1; then it will beready to have the blocking-box C placed in recessed circleG, 'fig. 4, with glass ball E in it ready for operation. The spreadingbrush, D, fig. 3,'has the side nest to the blocking concaved, so that agla'ss ball five-eighths of an inch in diameter will roll between it and the blocking-box 0, fig. 3. In the centre of spreading-brush D is bored a funnel-shaped hole, H, fig.-3, and is half an inch in diameter. In this hole the spit or water is put, and the glass ball E, fig. 3, stands ready to roll-it into the blocking. Near the outer edge of D, fig. 3, there is made a recessed rin'g,'-F F,' into which the edge ofblacking-box C fits, and thereby makes the joint close between C and D, as shown in fig. 3.

Having described the construction of my improvement, I'herein set forth its operation and advantages: Fig. 1 representsitin readiness for use. When the boot or shoe-black takes hold of it to do blocking his business is to spit or pour water into the hole H, fig. 3, in the centre of the spreading-brush D, and then to shake it for a second or so in that position, when he can reverse it or turn it upside down and apply it to the boot or shoe,'when the spittleor water will run. out at the hole where it went in, properly mixed with the blocking, and will be spread over the shoe by the brush.

Claim. .Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent. is-

1. The application of the glass ball E to the mixing the blacking, as specified. 2. I clnim the mode of applying spring-holders B, spreading-brush D, in combination with blocking-box G, glass ball E, and recessed circle G in top of polishing-brush, for reception of blocking-box C, as constructed, find operating for purposes set forth.

ROBERT ADAMS.

Witnesses:

A. S. DAVISON, J. J. Ros'msou. 

